24 September 2016

Earlier this year, my husband and I drove the 550 miles North to visit my family in Scotland. We decided to stop in The Trossachs National Park on the way, and then drive the slow way to Aberdeen across the Cairngorm mountains. We stayed for a few days in a small apartment at the top of one of these towers

The views were amazing! The scenery is simply stunning and although I was born and spent the first 29 years of my life in Scotland it never fails to take my breath away.

I knew we planned to visit The Hill House, the home Charles Rennie MacIntosh designed for Glasgow publisher Walter Mackie.

I had some Macintosh themed reading with me, I really enjoyed Mr Mac and Me by Esther Freud. It is set in 1914 and told through the eyes of 12 year old Thomas, who lives in a quiet Suffolk Village. The numbers swell each year with the girls who come down from the Highlands to gut and pack the herring. One year a mysterious Scotsman arrives, it is the arcitect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and together with his red-haired artist wife, they soon become a source of fascination and wonder to Thomas.

About Me

I am married with two adult sons and a mad golden retriever! I am originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, but I now live in a thatched cottage on the River Thames in England. I love country walks, gardening, reading, quilting, embroidery and knitting.